R David Foster, not wishing to impose more words on anybody, most importantly himself, provides this blog for anyone who wishes clarification through explanations by means of words.
Honestly, let me tell personal stories as true as I can possibly remember, which is pretty true if I bother to remember at all, and pretty verifiable if I'm bothering to remember or else it really means nothing to remember it because nobody will ever believe anything I feel worth remembering . . . whatever!

Thursday, December 24, 2015

So is Santa Claus real ? The testimony of two or more unrelated adult citizens would be substantial in a court of reality.

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Saint Nicholas was a real historical person, sainted, who secretly gave out gifts.
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New York City was originally a Dutch colony, that was called New
Amsterdam by the industrious Dutch republic. It was traded to the
English in exchange for modern day Indonesia, which was considered
valuable for its spices.
"Situated on the strategic, fortifiable
southern tip of the island of Manhattan, the fort was meant to defend
the Dutch West India Company's fur trade operations in the North River
(Hudson River). It became a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic
as of 1624 and was designated the capital of the province in 1625." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam
So to say "Saint Nicholas" with a Dutch accent, makes it sound not only
like "Sinterklaus" but also "Santa Claus", and the legend of the secret
gift giver, leaving coins in shoes left out for him, continued,
pre-dating the English colony.
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Stockings were normally not washed everyday, because that would mean
doing too much washing to do by hand, so instead they were left out to
dry in a warm place, and likely in front of the fire, if not at the foot
of the bed. So to wake up to put on your socks again and find a gift
in your stocking was like the reverse of a cowboy waking up to put on
his boots and finding a scorpion or snake in his boot. Furthermore it
was a humble fun way of giving a gift that was not pretensious or
reciprocationally motivated. Furthermore, to say that Santa Claus must
have left it is to divert appreciation away from the gift giver, again
making it a real giving rather than being reciprocationally motivated - I
like that word, that I may have made up: "reciprocationally". -https://www.google.ca/search?q=reciprocationally&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=XS18VuP1FIWketL6iPAM
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Reindeer are domesticated caribou that are maintained in the Nordic
countries. This is something the Canadian government should consider
for the territories. It is common for reindeer to both be used to haul
sleds and carts, as well as be milked like cows, and slaughtered for
their meet. For hauling in the snow they are very good and fast. They
are so fast that they are said to "fly". What is flying really? Well
essentially flying is to self reference your own inertia and only
support yourself by exerting your influence so as to maintain the
intended inertia. This means, when running, you would only touch the
ground to redirect your inertia, rather than support your weight. This
is true of flight, in that the influence the plane has on the air is
used to direct the plane. In the jet age, this means that planes are
supported by their engines, therefore self supporting, rather than on
the air; and only using their influence on the air to redirect their
inertia.
In 1989, at university, in the Science of Flight course I
took, I compared two similar aircraft - one with props and the other
with jets, and found from the flight characteristics that prop planes
sit on the air, while jets sit on their engines, cutting the engines to
drop onto their gear when they land, as opposed to propeller planes that
glide in on the air for a softer landing.
So to fly is to self
reference yourself. This is done when all external references are
unreliable, such as when the context keeps changing, by the intercession
of Mother Mary. Reindeers flying is religious because that is how a
saint, Saint Nicholas, got around in his life, by flying, by self
referencing so as to be able to give freely, rather than
reciprocationally, and this is how God gives - freely without any
required reciprocation on our part, as we are unable to reciprocate
fully to our own creator, being created beings ourselfs.
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Saint Nicholas is real, still. His self referencing lives on in
secular culture as a beacon of selfless giving, that is known by name.
He drew his strength from God and gave all he received from God away to
those around him, as we all do, or attempt to do, at secular Christmas
gatherings.
Saint Nicholas is a saint because he did what Jesus did
to the best of his ability, including self referencing, flying, as Jesus
is alive today.
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This is my favourite Rudolph cartoon.

It is ambitiously laid out, and the animation attempts to live up to
the layout, but in the end seems a little too two dimensional for me, as
does my own animation. Max Fleischer worked on this Rudolph cartoon.
Max Fleischer did Gulliver's travels to attempt to compete with
Disney's Snow White, by using actual rotoscoping ( tracing over live
action footage ) for Gulliver, that was quite effective, but the rest of
the animation was too two dimensional, although not unlike the seven
dwarfs. -

-------------------------------------------------------------------------This movie was advertised on the Gulliver's Travels video !!!

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R David Foster is an independent minded, gregarious individual, seeking the path less trod, for the sake of those he loves - anyone who may countenance the eternal.
David Foster graduated Sheridan College Arts Fundamentals Intensive Program with Honours in 1993, and continued on into the Classical Animation program there.
As a member of the Liason of Independent Film of Toronto (LIFT), he recieved a grant from LIFT and a grant from the Ontario Arts Council to complete his 6 minute animated film "HYPOTHERMIA / My Kayak Prayer" in 35mm in 2008. He is now working on a sixth episode of his animated series HESUS JOY CHRIST, as well as watercolour painting weekly.